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RAILWAY GAR. 110.301.855. y i Patented July 15,1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

, vfrAorro BUENO, JR., OE SANTIAGO DEOUEA, CUBA.

RAILWAY-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of'Letters Patent No. 301,855, dated July 15, 1884.

' i Application sied January 31, 1884. (No model.) Y

To all whom it may con/cern Be it known that I, TACITO BUENO, Jr., a citizen of Santiago de Cuba, Island of Cuba, and a resident of Santiago de Cuba, Island of Cuba, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-Cars, of which the following is a specication.

On. large sugar-plantations, where portable railways are used for the transportation of cane from the field to the mill, it is especially desirable that the unloading of the cars should be effected with the greatest celerity.

The object of this invention is to 'provide an improved device whereby an entire load of 'cane can be at once automatically discharged from a car.

The invention consists of a railroad-car provided with frame sides hinged thereto, and constructed so that they may be thrown down and outward at a desired angle to serve as guiding and delivery chutes/for the cane, and so that they may be self-supported in such position, and, in combination therewith,devices for holding said sides upright when desired, and preventing them from inclining inward toward each other.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a partly sectional end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a partly sectional end elevation of a modification of the device. Fig. 4 is a partly sectional elevation on line .r fr, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A represents the body of a car, supported on axles Vandwheels Al A2, respectively. The upper outer edges of the `car-side timbers B are preferably beveled off toward the outside, as shown at a, to better adapt them for the support of the sides C,

while permitting the hinges or joints connect- 5o loaded. Each frame-sideGis composed of a edges of the end stakesi.

longitudinal timber, G, about the length of the car, to which are bolted or otherwise secured clamps b, that form sockets for holding the lower ends of the sidestakes, G2, which lower ends are beveled, as shown at f, and are extended below the clamps b, the upper ends of said stakes being held'by and in a stringpiece, G3, as indicated in the drawings. The lower inner `edge ofeach timber C is beveled to correspond with the bevel of the car-timber B upon which it rests, so that the outer faces of the timbers B Cf are flush with each other, and the hinges D, holding the sides C to the car, have their joints'at the outmost and lowest points of the bevels above referred to; hence when a side, C, is thrown down the beveled ends of the stakes G2, beveled at a suitable angle, and the lower edges of the clamps b rest against the vertical face of a car-timber B, and, together with the hinges vD, hold the said side, as shown in dottedlines Fig. 2, in the desired 'position to serve as a guide and chute for directing and delivering the cane from the car to a cane-carrier or other placeof deposit. The sides C are held in an upright position by means of iron bars or braces E, said braces E being hinged at one end in blocks Ff, fastened On the ear-floor and having their other and perforated ends engaged in earsg,which are secured to the outer Each brace E has preferably an offset or shoulder at its outer end, as shown at m, to adapt it to be readily and correctly adjusted in an ear, g, and said shoulders m, engaging against the stakesides, assist in holding the latter in upright position.

Pins o, entered through the ears g and the outer ends of the braces E and 'into the end stakes, C2, hold the said sides andbraces in their proper relative positions when the car is loaded or arrangedto receive a load of cane.

In'Fig. 3r is shown amodication of my device, wherein the corresponding bevels on the edges of the timbersB C' are of less depth than hinges D`a-re necessarily'applied in a differ-l ent manner. Vith this construction, when the sides C `are thrown down at desired angles,

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as shown in dotted lines Fig. 3, the longitudinal timbers thereof present no obstacle to the discharge of the cane.

Having thus described my inventiom. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A railroad-'car constructed substantially as herein shown and described, with frame sides hinged to the side floor-timbers of the ear, and adapted to be thrown down and outward and self-supported' in position to serve as chutes, and adapted to be held iixed in upright positions, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the ear-body A, of frame sides C, hinges D, hinged braces E, blocks E', and pins o, substantially as and i'or the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the ear-body A, provided with side timbers, B, beveled on their outer upper edges, of frame sides C, provided with bottom timbers, C', correspondingly beveled on their lower inner edges, and with bevel-ended stakes C2, hinges D, clamps I), hinged braces E, blocks E,'ears g, and pins 0, all arranged and operating substantially as herein shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my namein presence of two witnesses, this 9th day of November,

TACITO BUENO, Jn. .Vi tnesses:

FEDERICO F. Monnis, MANUEL J 'Usrrz. 

